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Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Reducing Prawn-trawl Bycatch in Australia: An Overview and an Example from Queensland

Prawn trawling occurs in most states of Australia in tropical, subtropical, and temperate waters. Bycatch occurs to some degree in all Australian trawl fisheries, and there is pressure to reduce the levels of trawl fishery bycatch. This paper gives a brief overview of the bycatch issues and technological solutions that have been evaluated or adopted in Australian prawn-trawl fi sheries. Turtle excluder devices (TED’s) and bycatch reduction devices (BRD’s) are the principal solutions to bycatch in Australian prawn-trawl fisheries. This paper focuses on a major prawn-trawl fishery of northeastern Australia, and the results of commercial use of TED’s and BRD’s in the Queensland east coast trawl fishery are presented. New industry designs are described, and the status of TED and BRD adoption and regulation is summarized. The implementation of technological solutions to reduce fishery bycatch is assumed generally to assist prawn-trawl fisheries within Australia in achieving legislative requirements for minimal environmental impact and ecological sustainable development

Projection of the Irish Economy to 1965. ESRI Memorandum Series No. 8 1960(?)

In planning economic development, the responsible authorities normally do so with some specific objective or objectives in mind, such as a certain minimum per capita income, a certain level of employment, or a certain rate of growth. Though there might be little disagreement about the objectives, difficulties arise in realising them because of certain constraints, the most obvious of which, in the normal case, is the availability of labour and capital resources. Particularly in a free enterprise economy, there are other constraints which may affect the feasibility of the objectives, such as the balance of payments, the investment behaviour of businessmen and the savings habits of firms and persons

On the analysis of musical performance by computer

Existing automatic methods of analysing musical performance can generally be described as music-oriented DSP analysis. However, this merely identifies attributes, or artefacts which can be found within the performance. This information, though invaluable, is not an analysis of the performance process. The process of performance first involves an analysis of the score (whether from a printed sheet or from memory), and through this analysis, the performer decides how to perform the piece. Thus, an analysis of the performance process requires an analysis of the performance attributes and artefacts in the context of the musical score. With this type analysis it is possible to ask profound questions such as “why or when does a performer use this technique”. The work presented in this thesis provides the tools which are required to investigate these performance issues. A new computer representation, Performance Markup Language (PML) is presented which combines the domains of the musical score, performance information and analytical structures. This representation provides the framework with which information within these domains can be cross-referenced internally, and the markup of information in external files. Most importantly, the rep resentation defines the relationship between performance events and the corresponding objects within the score, thus facilitating analysis of performance information in the context of the score and analyses of the score. To evaluate the correspondences between performance notes and notes within the score, the performance must be analysed using a score-performance matching algorithm. A new score-performance matching algorithm is presented in this document which is based on Dynamic Programming. In score-performance matching there are situations where dynamic programming alone is not sufficient to accurately identify correspondences. The algorithm presented here makes use of analyses of both the score and the performance to overcome the inherent shortcomings of the DP method and to improve the accuracy and robustness of DP matching in the presence of performance errors and expressive timing. Together with the musical score and performance markup, the correspondences identified by the matching algorithm provide the minimum information required to investigate musical performance, and forms the foundation of a PML representation. The Microtonalism project investigated the issues surrounding the performance of microtonal music on conventional (i.e. non microtonal specific) instruments, namely voice. This included the automatic analysis of vocal performances to extract information regarding pitch accuracy. This was possible using tools developed using the performance representation and the matching algorithm

EDRD 340: Academic Language/Literacy Development in the Content Areas at the Secondary Level (Spring 2022)

Focuses on language/literacy development of all learners, including culturally and linguistically diverse learners in the academic context. Examines theories, concepts, and research to guide and inform instructional decisions. Covers effective strategies and appropriate materials for all students’ language/literacy development with particular attention to the CLD population

EDRD 340: Academic Language/Literacy Development in the Content Areas at the Secondary Level (Fall 2021)

Focuses on language/literacy development of all learners, including culturally and linguistically diverse learners in the academic context. Examines theories, concepts, and research to guide and inform instructional decisions. Covers effective strategies and appropriate materials for all students’ language/literacy development with particular attention to the CLD population

\u3cem\u3eBaird v. Bellotti\u3c/em\u3e: Abortion-The Minor\u27s Right to Decide

In the recent case of Baird v. Bellotti, a Massachusetts federal district court struck down state legislation providing for judicial and parental intrusion into a minor\u27s informed decision to abort. The policies behind the statute and reasoning offered by the court in its invalidation are examined below in light of relevant case law and constitutional strictures. The author\u27s exploration of the present boundaries of minors\u27 rights in the abortion choice concludes with approval of the continued protection of these rights by the court in Baird

\u3cem\u3eBaird v. Bellotti\u3c/em\u3e: Abortion-The Minor\u27s Right to Decide

In the recent case of Baird v. Bellotti, a Massachusetts federal district court struck down state legislation providing for judicial and parental intrusion into a minor\u27s informed decision to abort. The policies behind the statute and reasoning offered by the court in its invalidation are examined below in light of relevant case law and constitutional strictures. The author\u27s exploration of the present boundaries of minors\u27 rights in the abortion choice concludes with approval of the continued protection of these rights by the court in Baird